Question

I’m using rails 3.2 with asset and carrierwave for upload some images, they store in /public/uploads/photo/…..
but when I do a cap:deploy (with capistrano) my current directory application doesn’t contain the files I uploaded, because capistrano make a new version ….

=== Update ===

After all I use this :

inside :deploy namespace

   task :symlink_uploads do
     run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/uploads  #{release_path}/public/uploads"
   end

and after:

after 'deploy:update_code', 'deploy:symlink_uploads'

=== Re Update ===

The solution of @tristanm is the best way to solve this.

Answer 1

How about this:

# config/deploy.rb
set :shared_children, shared_children + %w{public/uploads}

:shared_children defaults to %w(public/system log tmp/pids) so we’re just expanding this list.

EDIT:

Don’t forget to run cap deploy:setup after changing :shared_children so that the new targets are created under shared.

EDIT Capistrano 3:

Capistrano 3 uses the linked_dirs setting and doesn’t specify public/system as a default anymore.

set :linked_dirs, fetch(:linked_dirs) + %w{public/system public/uploads}